Example sentences of "[not/n't] go " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then , properly managed , perhaps using birth control instead of the crude culls practised by Zimbabwe and its friends , there is no reason why elephants should not go on producing ‘ found ’ ivory ( tusks picked up after natural mortality ) and tourist revenue for ever . |
| 32 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — A Soviet parliamentary committee rejected the government 's proposed budget and economic plan for 1990 saying it did not go far enough in adapting the Soviet planned economy to competition and market forces . |
| 33 | Philip Healey , Acquisitions Monthly editor , said UK companies do not go for smaller acquisitions out of choice . |
| 34 | However , believing that the reforms do not go far enough , and backed by the National Council for Civil Liberties ( Liberty ) and The Independent , he is still pursuing the campaign to the European courts . |
| 35 | She refuses to be ornamental and will not go with her husband on state trips that do not interest her . |
| 36 | Passengers on the 5.18pm train from Waterloo in London to Alton , Hampshire , were enraged when it stopped at Woking , Surrey , and the driver said it would not go further . |
| 37 | He will not go only to compete . |
| 38 | Quite often things will not go to plan because of the variability of people 's behaviour in situations of stress or the unusual and horrific nature of some of the calls the police have to attend . |
| 39 | My answer did not go down well with the Officer with the lather on his face . |
| 40 | Others in Vitebsk suspected that gold seized would not go to the Volga famine relief but into the Bolsheviks ' pockets or their mouths in the shape of much-fancied gold teeth . |
| 41 | In the more remote localities Bolshevik officials , desperate for transport facilities , ‘ ignored NEP and all its works , and commandeered right and left as if military Communism [ War Communism ] was still pure and undefiled ’ , yet another indication that military methods did not go completely out of fashion with the advent of NEP . |
| 42 | The reader is never bored — but could be disappointed that the book does not go beyond its 120 pages . |
| 43 | An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States . |
| 44 | The result of all this politics — and Ramsey 's sense that he might be reading the wrong subject , because his interests were now more modern than ancient — meant that his classics did not go as might be expected of someone who won a scholarship . |
| 45 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
| 46 | He afterwards thought this refusal very foolish and regretted that he did not go . |
| 47 | Since all the teachers in the faculty hitherto were Anglican , this choice of a Methodist for a key post did not go unobserved . |
| 48 | Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward . |
| 49 | Willink thought that perhaps he should not go ; but he also discontented Ramsey by treating it as a problem in how Ramsey should get the best career in a worldly sense . |
| 50 | It did not go of its own accord . |
| 51 | I will not go on to examine by the same criteria the other manifestations of The Thing , such as the anti-apartheid demonstrations , in which open breach of the law was widely condoned and encouraged by the organs of public opinion . |
| 52 | Stone does not go this far , although he can not resist quoting an Irish opponent of divorce during the referendum campaign of 1986 to the effect that ‘ a woman voting for divorce is like a turkey voting for Christmas ’ ( p. 420 ) . |
| 53 | She put her knickers on , and almost smiled , because even now she would not go to Rachel without them . |
| 54 | You do not go out after a dragon with hounds and huntsmen ; nor with gangs of labourers to dig pits and set fires and lay traps . |
| 55 | I know I can not go unless you let me , please let me go . |
| 56 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
| 57 | She could not go . |
| 58 | She did not go to the post office the next evening or the next . |
| 59 | It would not do for it to take place in Moran 's house and Moran would not go to a hotel . |
| 60 | Outwardly it had been the easiest and quietest of times that the house had ever known but the unease did not go away . |